On 13 November The Telegraph ran the headline "Piddington migrant camp a risk to women and girls, Government admits". Its leader the same day stated it as fact, describing "Labour's plan to dump asylum-seekers in villages like Piddington, Oxfordshire, despite the Government admitting the camp will pose a risk to women and girls living nearby". On 14 November the Daily Mail went further: "Piddington migrant camp DOES pose a risk to women and girls, government admits as police also raise crime fears".
The Government admitted nothing of the kind. Its planning documents, published on 13 November, record that officials "considered" "concerns about the safety of women and girls" raised by the public, and concluded that the site's security "would materially reduce security and community-safety risks". The equality assessment says those concerns came from at least a quarter of the public representations, and states: "The assessment does not assume that future occupants' protected characteristics indicate a propensity for antisocial behaviour and crime."
Thames Valley Police did not object to the camp. Its letter's only mention of serious crime is about protest: "Policing nationally has experienced increasing protest activity relating to asylum accommodation, in some cases escalating to serious crime and disorder." The crime warning both papers credit to "police chiefs" is the officials' summary of an objection from the elected Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Barber.